Column: Technology offers solutions for breast-feeding challenges

7:50 PM,
Mar. 22, 2013

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| For Stevens Point Journal Media

Breast-feeding is not a high-tech activity. Everything a woman needs to breast-feed is part of her. Her body does a great job of providing the "equipment" to make, deliver and store the best nutrients for her baby. Yet, we live in a world of gadgets and technology. How can technology improve what is already perfect?

A class taught at the local hospital shows a picture of a caveman's family and compares the needs of their baby to the needs of a baby born today - absolutely no difference. But looking at the lives of Mom and Dad today verses the caveman Mom and Dad; one can assume many, many differences. ...